Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 762

This issue of Broadway Billy (Vol. XXX, No. 762, March 1, 1892) contains "The Three Detectives in Denver" by J.C. Cowdrick. The detective fiction serial follows protagonist Broadway Billy (William Weston) and his two partners—Skinny (James Callahan) and old rover Roger Watts—as they receive a summons from Detective Desmond Brandland. Brandland offers them a thousand dollars to solve a case he wishes to abandon. The case involves eccentric miser Selim Mudgeon, a one-legged man living in Denver whose wooden leg has been stolen. Despite the prosthetic's negligible monetary value, Mudgeon desperately seeks its recovery and offers substantial compensation. The narrative emphasizes Billy's impulsive nature, Skinny's cautionary counterbalance, and Rogers's frontier wisdom as they consider accepting this peculiar case.